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Digital Computers from Com· Flight Center ... '- cember, 1963 A puter Application ••. Automatic Contest Winning .. ' - Before you can say 6'Gbt me the facts" ... DATA-PHONE can say it 16 times That's because DATA-PHONE service "talks" 16 Your business locations have all the information times faster than people can talk. It can turn out they need - all of the time. No costly delays. No up to two million words a day, in fact. postponed decisions. No duplicated effort. DATA-PHONE messages travel over regular tele­ Our Communications Consultant will show you phone lines - at regular telephone rates. It sends how DATA-PHONE service can meet your special any data that can be punched on card or tape­ needs. Just call your Bell Telephone Business Office inventories, orders, schedules, waybills, memos. -and they'll put him in touch with you. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Sel'ving you Circle No. 7 on Readers Service Card DDP- 24 Digital Computer introduced March, 1963 3? R Orders to date* including. Three DDp·24 NASA Orders Air Force To Get Computers To EAI 3C DDP-24 3C DDP-24 FRAMINGHAM, MASSA- n For Hydac - 2400 Computer CHUSETTS - A Computer J FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHU- a Control Company DDP-24 gen- v FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHU· SETTS -=- A DDP-24 Digital Data n eral purpose computer has been Ii SETTS - Electronic Associates, Processor has been ordered from a ordered by the Air Force Sys- s· l Incorporated, Long Branch, New Jersey, Computer Control Company, Inc., 1; tems command, Aeronautical s: , has ordered three DDP·24 general by NASA for the Goddard Space 5 Systems Division, Wright- S purpose digital computers from Com· Flight Center. 1 Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. C 1 puter Control Company, Inc. The The high speed, general purpose The Air Force will use the h , three computers were ordered as part computer will be used as a simulator high speed DDP-24 for on-line r: . of a continuing EAIj3C contract by for a world-wide tracking network data format conversion and also PI which 3C supplies the digital portion for manned spacecraft. Data will be off-line for general purpose c( t· of EAl's new HYDAC·2400 - the first utilized in determining vehicle orbits, computation. Included with the iI d standard, commercially available prediction of landing sites, etc. The DDP-24 is a comprehensive soft- c: ware par.k~p'e· i npl.- •• " .... g analogi digital computer system. The DDP-24 is supplied with a comnrp- ,...._. - d design of the HYDAC·2400 provides p""";",, "off- - --",,' ~t for the system to function as a totally )r integrated unit and also as separate 3C DDP-24 , III analog and digital computers. Litton Orders 3C A.. :_~ •. :.1 l.T"·T) ~ r n '''1) , •• :'- DDP-24 Computer Slated For 3C Delivers FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHU· Haskins Lab . SETTS - A Computer Control FRAMINGHAM, MASSA­ DDp·24 Computer ~ Company DDP·24 general purpose computer has been ordered by Litton ) CHUSETTS - A Computer Industries for their Communication ., Control Company DDP-24 general. For Gemini Trainer. h purpose computer has been r. Sciences Laboratory in Waltham, FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHU­ 3 Massachusetts. n ordered by Haskins Laboratories, SETTS - Computer Control Com­ Litton will use the hi~h spced p Inc" New York, N. Y. Haskins !_ pany, Inc., delivered the first of two DDP-24 for open·shop scientific and ic will use the very high speed, DDP-24 Digital Data Processors engineering computation. Included n- 24-bit word DDP-24 for applica­ as part of the standard DDP·24 st tions in speech sim111~tinn _.- t ,d~~ ~~~ti~e; i;; ~~Di~n~h~ ~~ri~t ~i~; contract agreement is a comprehen· d. ::1:"''11.,,,,:. t Trainer System. sive software package including ~: The DDP-24 will be. the basic FORTRAN II and 3C engineering rl. computer in the system and will pro­ supnort RerviceR. rs vide real-time simulation of the on­ '3 board guidance computer through all '0 phases of launch, boost and insertion, IS orbit, rendezvous and docking, retro COMPUTER CONTROL COMPANY, INC. ;h, and re-entry, and letdown. Th.. r"' ..... nllter at"" r.~_~'. thr OLD CONNECTICUT PATH, FRAMINGHAM, MASS .• 2217 PURDUE AVE., LOS ANGELES 64, CALIF. * OGTOBER 39, 1963 NOV. 1'111963 Circle No. 8 on Readers Servico Card Who put the flexibility into Data Processing at I CRUCIBLE, I®? OFLIUISCA the only continuous tabulating card with NO medial' waste strips Crucible Steel Company of America tabulating cards offer unlimited flexibility, needed continuous tabulating checks for unlimited versatility. its accounts payable ... checks that could That's why Crucible Steel uses eight different be processed afhigh speeds ... checks that FORMSCARD tab checks for various pay­ call, write or wire would eliminate the need for carbons by roll and accounts payable checks ... why having vouchers.at both side and)JOttom. you should consider the advantages A tall order? Not for FORMSCARDS! FORMSCARDS can bring to FORMSCARDS' exclusive continuous your firm's systems. ., 7br",s inc .. WillOW GROVE, PA. Phone: Oldfield 9·4000 • Efficient operation on any printer at any speed • Easily separated manually or on any burster _ . .J . ~ • Available pre-punched and with vouchers of an,;y size at side, top or bottom '.~'. • Can be part of multiple part sets .... ~UF.CTu.ER-Ut"BEA Manufacturers of line-hole continuous business forms. Samples on request-Sales representatives in principal cities Circle No. 9 on Readers Service Card 4 COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for December, 1963 Our front cover shows engineer G. Woodruff explaining the /low chart of the strategy he Med to guide a computer to certain victory in a national contest. See "Computer Wins Contest" on page 47. ©@[rLrUICd)~~[l0@[FJ§ LJ m(jll~J m(1~'2;@U-lrlllD'2;O@u-u DECEMBER, 1963 Vol. XII, No. 12 computers and data processors: the design, applications, editor and publisher and implications 0/ EDMUND C. BERKELEY information processing systems. assistant editors MOSES M. BERLIN NEIL D. MACDONALD 111 This Issue LINDA LADD LOVETT 1963 PICTORIAL REPORT ON THE COMPUTER FIELD 26 DIGITAL COMPUTERS contributing editors 31 ANALOG COMPUTERS ANDREW D. BOOTH 33 INPUT-OUTPUT EQUIPMENT NED CHAPIN JOHN W. CARR, III 38 MEMORIES ALSTON S. HOUSEHOLDER 42 DATA TRANSMITTERS AND CONVERTERS PETER KUGEL 12 "DO-IT-YOURSELF" PROGRAMMING SYSTEMS by Bruce R. Hering advisory committee T. E. CHEATHAM, JR. 18 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS STANDARDS GEORGE E. FORSYTHE by Dick H. Brandon and Frederick Kirch RICHARD W. HAMMING 22 CONSIDERATIONS IN COMPUTER DESIGN - LEADING UP TO THE ALSTON S. HOUSEHOLDER CONTROL DATA 6600 (Part 2) HERBERT F. MITCHELL, JR. by James E. Thornton associate publisher PATRICK J. MCGOVERN 111 Every Issue production manager across the editor's des/oJ ANN B. BAKER 45 CDMPUTING AND DATA PROCESSINI1 NEWSLETTER circulation manager editorial VIRGINIA A. NELSON, 815 Washington St. 6 Computers and Computer People, Against Assassination Newtonville, Mass. 02160, DEcatur 2-5453 editor's scrillcbl.'ild • advertising representatives 9 Computers, MagiC Numbers, and 'So What Else is New?' ••• What's Due From ACM Dues New York 18, BERNARD LANE 9 Diebold Researchers Undertake Study of E.DP Developments 37 West 39 St., BRyant 9-7281 10 Chicago 11, COLE, MASON AND DEMING readers' mul editor's forum 737 N. Michigan Ave., SU 7-6558 7 "Peephole" to the Outside World Calendar of Coming Events Los Angeles 5, WENTWORTH F. GREEN 21 300 S. Kenmore Ave., DUnkirk 7-8135 reference information, San Francisco 5, A. S. BABCOCK 55 New Patents, by Raymond S. Skolnick 605 Market st., YUkon 2-3954 56 Monthly Computer Census E!sewhere, THE PUBLISHER index of 11,otices 815 Washington St., DEcatur 2-5453 Advertising Index Newtonville, Mass. 02160 58 COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT 815 WASHINGTON ST., NEWTONVILLE 60, MASS., BY BERKELEY ENTERPRISES, INC. PRINTED IN U.S.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, UNITED STATES, $15.00 FOR 1 YEAR, $29.00 FOR 2 YEARS, INCLUDING THE JUNE DIRECTORY ISSUE; CANADA, ADD SOc A YEAR FOR POSTAGE: fOREIGN, ADD suo A YEAR fOR POSTAGE. ADDRESS ALL EDITORIAL AND SUBSCRIPTION MAIL TO BERKELEY ENTERPRISES, INC., 815 WASHINGTON ST., NEWTONVILLE, MASS., 02160. SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON. MASS. POSTMASTER: PLEASE SEND ALL FORMS 3579 TO BERKELEY ENTERPRISES, INC., 815 WASHINGTON ST., NEWTONVILLE. MASS., 02160. © COPYRIGHT, 1963. BY BERKELEY ENTERPRISES, INC. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: IF YOUR ADDRESS CHANGES, PLEASE SEND US BOTH YOUR NEW ADDRESS AND YOUR OLD ADDRESS (AS IT APPEARS ON THE MAGAZINE ADDRESS IMPRINT), AND ALLOW THREE WHKS FOR THE CHANGE TO BE MADE. COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION, FOR DECEMBER, 1963 c&a EDITORIAL Computers and Computer People, Agains t Assassination The tragic events of the end of November must the years 1919 to 1933 before Hitler came to power, over have shaken all men of good will in America. First: the 400 distinguished democratic Germans were assassinated violent death of President John F. Kennedy - shot from by neomilitarist individuals and groups. When charged ambush by an assassin in Dallas, Texas. Second: the with murder in court, they were regularly freed by jud­ dishonor - the prime suspect, shot by another assassin ges and juries on the defense that they were fighting trea­ in Dallas, and dead without a fair trial before the bar of son to Germany. This uncorrected perversion of justice justice. makes it a bit less surprising that after the Nazis came to power in 1933, they killed over 6 million unarmed As Ralph McGill said in his column "Harvest of Jews and over 5 million captives of other nationalities Hate" printed in the "Boston Globe" on November 23: 1939-45. "We would do well to understand Assassination and genocide are not inevitable. that hate .... unchecked in behalf They are outcomes of hate; they are phenomena of human of morality, decency, and human behavior; and they can be dealt with through common dignity ...
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